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THE AEGUS; WEDNESDAY; APRIL 8, 1908.
NEWS QF. THE NEIGHBORS :I f gjffflp. If- :lgf f III
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- . Children Have Smallpox. Flora and pears to have been buried, according
Erma. the two lUtle daughter's' of Mr.) to the , letter, where . the death oc
and;,iMrs. John Ehlert, Lincoln and 1 cvrred. The letter recites that Robe
Hancock avenues, have smallpox and! son. is her brother and. that, he was
are at Su. Robert's hospital. They
are in the care of their mother whs
accompanied them. . One child is 7
. years and the other is 11 years of age.
'Test Considered Ample. August
Suhl was given a - hearing yesterday
- afternoon before the board of insanity
commissioners and committed to Mt.
Pleasant. The patient had a hallucina
tion that some - secret organization
was after him. When asked by Com
missioner Hanley if it was the Civic
Federation, Suhl admitted he had
never hoard of either that organiza
tion or Dr. Blancke. . After this, ad
mission, it did not take the commis
sioners long to decide that the patient
was mentally unbalanced and .he was
committed to the Mt. Pleasant hos
pital for the insane. . .' .
8pong Case Up . May 18. The
court docket was called yesterday by
Judge Barker and many cases set for
trial during this term of court Most
interesting among these is that of An
nie Arp vs. Dr. A, L. Hageboeck, et
al., better known by this time as the
celebrated sponge case. This case at
a previous trial resulted - In a disa
greement on the part of-the jury. It
vwfll now be retried on' May 13.
Fired Shot at Him. George Thotis
is under arrest accused of discharging
firearms. The prosecuting witness is
Chris Buronis, who says that Thotis
fired a shot or two. at him Monday
night, and the man states that the
same proceeding occurred two weeks
ago.' "
Diphtheria, at Age of 60. Mrs. M.
Harbeck, aged 60 years, 1204 West
Second street, Davenport," has diph
theria. Thinks Relative Was Killed Here.
The police have received a second in
quiry from Mrs. Rose Lane, 734 Moore
Tariff Commission a Benefit
- (Special Washing-ton Correspondence ol
' The Argus.)
v There have come to me so many in
quiries concerning Democratic state
conventions thus far held and the daks
of those yet to come that I take this
opportunity of giving the information
to friends who ' may be"lnterctetl.
These states have already acted: Wis
consin, Kansas, Oklahoma, Nebraska,
North Dakota, Rhode Island, Iowa and
Indiana. All of these states Instructed
. for . Mr. . Bryan except Rhode Island.
In. that state, which bos' 'eight dele
gates te the convention, seven of those
chosen are pronounced Bryan men.
The convention, however, declined to
instruct -
' The state conventions the dates of
v which have been fixed are as follows:
;New Jersey, April 23; Illinois, April 23;
Ohio, May 5; Minnesota, May 14; Vir
ginia, May 17; Washington, May 13;
Bonth Carolina, May 20; Pennsylvania,
May 20; Missouri,-May 20; Texas, May
20; Oregon, June 16; Tennessee, June
Of course this doesn't by any means
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the death of Will Robeson, who she
says was sflot and killed on a wheat
farm last "August, and whose body ap-
working for a man who. owned a
wheat, farm. She .states in her, letter
that a message regarding"; his death
was .received by his wife, who was
sick at the time and could not. take
the body back to Memphis.'- It is also
recited that letters from,- his wife
were found on his person - when he
was killed: The minds ' of -everyone
in and about the police station have
been called into action, but no one
seems to be able to recall a shooting
affray last August on a wheat., farm
aiound this vicinity.
Obituary Record." Mrs. Maria
Kindt, died suddenly Monday after
noon dropping dead as the result of
heart failure while - working in her
little garden in the rear of her home,
1524 West Seventh street. Mrs. Kindt
was 73 years of age. She was born
ir. Germany and came to this country
at an early age. One brother. William
Bachus, survives.
Mr. and Mrs. Herman Lamp, 1303
Davie street, are mourning the death
of their little son, Harry W. Lamp,
who passed away Monday after a
short illness. The child was 1' year,
6 months and 18 days of age. ;
Little Clarence ; Simmons, son 1 of
Mrs. Simmons, G13 West - Fourth
street, died yesterday at 7 o'clock at
Mercy i hospital, the cause of death
being membraneous croup. .
CABLE.
T. G. Parker - and George Whan
were business visitors in eastern Iowa
several days last week. ... ; '
4 Miss Mae Nelson returned Thurs
day from Cambridge where she has
been employed the past few months.
'George Lawson was an Aledo vis
itor Wednesday. -
The republican village caucus was
held at the town hall Monday evening.
The following were named Trustees,
Richard Haddick, Andrew Rosander
cover the full list of states, and within
the next two or three days the dates
of many other conventions are likely
to be announced.
j . .
Governor Johnson's Friends.
Governor Johnson ought' to re-echo
that old prayer that he might be saved
ironi.. his- frieads.; Ju o-JeUer-to. the
editor of a Swedish paper in bis state
he expressed his willingness to accept
the ' Democratic nomination for the
presidency, which Indeed no man this
year would care to decline. The gov
ernor's letter was straightforward and
manly, but the enthusiast to whom it
was .sent . or some other enthusiast
with whom the latter must have con
ferred followed the letter in the press
dispatches with certain ' statements
that , will not greatly . aid - Governor
Johnsou's ambitions. . He said, for ex
ample, that the friends of the governor
were hopeful of getting part of the
Minnesota delegation, and they recall
ed the fact that in 1892 Grover Cleve
land did not have the united New
York delegation back of him, yet was
nominated. ' And the correspondent
went on to say that Governor John
soo!s .friends do' not . hesitate to assert
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Itrate. William Tomlinsofi: treasurer, I ' . IVUflll 111 a II . ... : ' . . ' : ' '..s. v "-' - v
James Wfed; clerk, R.' W, -Clark.
State's Attorney-W. J. Graham and
Dr. Mv G. Reynolds, both of Aledo, ad
dressed a large audience at the Con
gregational church Sunday afternoon
on the local option issue. . In the even
ing they Addressed the young people
who won medals in contest in tms
townfihip and Rev; A, T. . ; Kelly ?" of
Sherrard had charge oti the meeting.:
HAZEL DELL '
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vThe entertainment nd box sociable
that4 was held at 'the French school
last Friday evening was well attended.
A program lasting about one hour was
given by the pupils of the school, as
sisted by the Young Ladies' quartet of
Hazel Dell. After the program the
boxes were sold. Clyde Hessman acted
as auctioneer. Thirty-seven boxes were
sold. They brought $53.50. , The high
est price paid was 6. 1
Mrs. Lewis. Hessman and son Max
were visiting in Muscatine last Mon
day and Tuesday. ;
Rev. Mr. Richardson delivered an
interesting sermon on the saloon ques
tion at the Hazel Dell church last Sun
day. : -.-v . ' . ;
Rev. Mr. Woods and Revv Mr. Riggs
of Reynolds held a temperance, meet
ing at Buffalo 4 Prairie ' Monday even
ing. .- , . . ' ; .f ' ''V;-,;
" William Krueger, who has been; suf
fering with a complication of diseases.
Is Improving slowly. ;
TAYLOR RIDGE
" Mrs. G. Helntermelster was Called to
SIlvls to see her daughter, Mrs. John
Lowe,. who has been ill.
Robert Cain and wife of Milan were
visiting with "Ellis Rouse Thursday.
Mrs. Ben Redicker was visiting In
Rock Island Thursday.
Mr. and Mrs. James Cook were Rock
Island callers Friday.
Mrs. Herman Hofer and mother,
Mrs. William Baker,- went to Rock Is
land and also to Davenport to visit a
(Continued on Page Seven.)
to Republicans
that the' forces that were "behind 'Cleve
land at that time are today behind
Johnson.
The forces behind Cleveland prior to
the convention of .1892 sent to that
convention a multimillionaire,' now
dead, but whose name has been sadly
tarnished by recent revelatious in New
York finance. The forces behind Cleve
land during the election were the
forces of plutocracy, -the Wall street
and, the railroad multimillionaires. The
effect of this support was that in the
first congressional election after Cleve
land's inauguration - the. Democratic
party was beaten as it had not been
beaten for long before nor was beaten
afterward -until the forces behind
Cleveland rendered the valuable serv
ice of getting behind Judge Parker.
Planning Campaign Funds..
People about the house and the sen
ate are calling attention to what seems
to be a carefully prearranged plan to
secure for . the next Republican na
tional committee a comfortable ' cam
paign fund, and the Republicans have
so long carried elections by the tower
of money that they would be grievous
ly embarrassed if they did, not have
some millions'at their disposal.
' In a message ' of some months ago
President Uoosevelt warmly commend
ed .the principle of a bill of which Per
ry Belmont is the most able promoter
for giving publicity to all campaign
contributions. That bill, is before con
gress, or, to be pore accurate, is in
committee, but w'hen the president sent
bis latest message asking that certain
things be done before the end of this
most dilatory session the national pub
licity bill was not one of the things he
mentioned. . V 4
But he did urge the creation of a
tariff commission,' which, should sit
during the summer and fall and take
evidence and gather statistics bearing
upon that famous revision of the tariff
which for some ten years has always
been going to be made Immediately
after the next election.
Put these two matters together. A
tariff commission," which If created by
this congress would necessarily have a.
swinging majority of high tariff states
men upon It traveling about the coun
try meeting the protected manufactur
ere all the way from the shipbuilders
of, Pennsylvania to the lumber mag
nates of Oregon," would naturally, be
able to- suggest tQ these gentlemen
whaJiaTe profited so much by'the tar
iff that the defeat of the Republican
party in the next election would be
disastrous to them, while its success
could only be secured by he isek of
-money. 1
Of course if the publicity bill should
become a law and If It were properly
enforced the voters of the country
thirty -days5 before the election would
"be Informed who was putting up the
funds for the campaign of either party,-
A list of heavy contributions from
the steel trust or the oil trust or the
lumber trust to the Republican party
or any other party would prove .disas
trous. Indeed, publicity given to such
innocent and, charitable contributions
as were made by the insurance -com-;
panics' to ., Mr. Roosevelt's - last cam-"
paign fund or even the general knowl
edge that a "practical man" like E. B.
HaiTiman had been .called to the White
Want . Larger Pipe Used. An ordi
nance was read Monday night at the
meeting of the city council . of : East
Moline asking permission for Ihe vil
lage of Silvia to lay its sewer through
East Moline so as to connect with tne
Mississippi.' No action, other than
tabling the ordinance was taken, and
this . was done, for a purpose. if the
sewer is to go through Bast. Moline
the city desires to have a larger pipe
laid ana then grant permission to con
nect the "pipes of East. Moline to this
sewer, that " is r in the part through
which jthe sewer passes. A resolution
was passed authorizing the mayor and
city council to sign the contract with
H. C. Downing to furnish lights for
the city : :
tyan, Luther League Excursion.
One,of the first excursions out of Mo
line harbor will be a moonlight trip
on the W. W. which the Tri-city Lu
ther league will take. May 22. Th'e
entertainment committee of the league
has signed a contract for the steamer
for that date. The plan is that it will
leave Moline levee-at. 7:15 and pass
out through the lock and down to
Davenport."
- Formerly V.' Lived i Here Andrew
Fjellander, the former well knowu
tailor of this city, died Saturday ' at
his home, in -Pierre,; S. D., and the re
main were shipped- to Moline. Mr.
Fjellander was born in Sweden Oct.
C, 1840, and came to'-: Moline in 18G8.
He conducted a tailor shop on Fifth
avenue between Thirteenth and Four
teenth streets for "several years, and
became one of the well known men of
the city, He remained In this city
until 1J04 when he moved to Pierre
- Obituary Record. Mrs. A. H. Goar
died at her home, 2936 Eleventh ave
nue, Monday afternoon In her 3Cth
year. Ida E. Myers was born In Tiffin,
Ohio, in 1872, and there resided until
a year and a half ago when she came
here'to be married to Mr. Goar, the,
wedding taking place Nov. 28. 190G.
Two( sisters, , Mrs. Frank Zerbe.and
Mrs. Kate Constino, whose homes are
in Ohio, . survive . together with . the
husband andean infant daughter..
Elsie .-..Peterson, the 2-year-old
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Claus Peter
son of Walker station, passed away
Monday "evening at 7 o'clock after a
short . illness. . . ,
Miss VenlaT "Johnson ' of this city
died yesterday at St. Anthony's hos
pital in .Rock Island, death 'following
an operation ' and congestion of .the
liver. - She was'born in Smoland,
Sweden,. Feb. 19, 1888, and came to
this country a littleover a year ago,
coming -- direct to Moline. bne
leaves to .- mourn her father, one
sister, and two brothers in Sweden
and one sister, Mrs. Edward Eng
strom'1ofthis "city, and one brother,
August Johnson, also; of Moline. , -
House .' arttl asked to raise S2oO,'000
three or four'daj'3 before election to
carry Nev.' York might really create in
the minds of the voters some question
as to the eutire good faith of the party
adopting these methods.
So it would seem that the omission
of any recommendation for the public
ity bill and the Insistence upon a tariff
commission, rather suggest a scheme
to raise money by devious ways for
uso in an election which now the Re
publicans themselves look upon with
apprehension. ", v ' . .. .
Some Whita House Gossip.
A Republican senator from the mid
dle west says that in a recent conver
sation with the president the latter re
iterated with vigor his expressed deter
mination not . to be a candidate this
year. He declared that All he could do
would be doue for Secretary Taft,. and
Indeed the extreme activity to "this eud
of., the federal offlceholuerj . notwith
standing the civil service reform law
seems to justify, the president's asser
tion. But the interesting point is that
my informant canie away from the
White House with the very fixed opin
iou that the president was not hopeful
of the election of Taft, however hope
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ful he might be of bis nomination. In
deed, it is the belief among keen poli
ticians about the ccpitol that the
chances for the success of any Repub
lican this year are so exceedingly small
that, a gentleman with the spectacular
instincts of Mr. Roosevelt would be
quite likely first to , seek the credit of
nominating a successor even though
ne imgnt possibly ran, tnen make a
regal tour of Europe and return to
politics four years hence to become the
savior ef bis party and bis nation from
Democratic rule. -
It sounds much like Roosevelt No
man in public life is more thoroughly
self seeking than he, and none plays
shrewder politics. . The close of his ad
ministration finds the country facing a
business depression such as has not
been known since 1893. It followed
upon a panic which paralleled the one
which nearly fifteen . years ago was
charged to Democratic policies. Mr.
Roosevelt has had for seven years al
most unhampered control of the gov
ernment of this nation. He has had a
congress which, while of late covertly
hostile, was long only too eager to do
his bidding. Ills party and himself are
responsible for the business situation
in the United States today, "which led
more than 50,000 people in New' York
on a recent Saturday to Join in a dem
onstration for the unemployed. , Mr.
Roosevelt is a shrewd politician. He
kuows that the times are precarious
for his party and even more doubtful
for himself. To thrust forward the
good humored Taft. would mean that
in the doubtful result-of- success be
vould be hailed as the sponsor of the
successful candidate, while defeat 1
would merely eliminate Taft, but leave
the only living Republican ex-f resident
in a position to. seek the limelight in
other fields of activity and return to
plague his party once again. This Is
the feeling among, I should say, almost
a majority of the Republicans in the
house and senate: To any one.who has
studied the Roosevelt character and
career it sounds like a plausible expla
nation of his present attitude.
The pjack List and the Boycott.
Much of the pressure being brought
to bear upon congress for a radical
amendment of the Sherman, ant it rust
law is due to the -belated discovery of
the large corporate employers of labor
that some of the decisions recently
rendered In courts against unions
which have attempted Jto boycott goods
manufactured by certain firms may be
appealed to by unions to destroy. those
corporations which are maintaining a
black list, so called, of worklngmen.
l or a time members of labor unions
who had any ' property 1 whatsoever,
were anic stricken after the decision
of the Dahbury hatters. ,One of them
saidt to me a few days after that deci
sion: "JJbelong to a union, and I must
belong to a union to work at my trade
and secure fair wages. I own a little
house, but under this decision if my
union shall compel me and my fellows
to strike and advise a boycott of the
goods of the firm for which we have
been working I am made Individually
liable.:' The firm could ; select such
members of the union as It knew were
at all financially responsible .and strip
them of their property.'' " . '
It seemed like a hard case, and un
der the decisions as they' now stand It
Is a possible one now. But the very
employers who are fighting the boycott
and the concerted strike do maintain
black lists. The heads of the labor un
ions have within the past few days
secured legal advice to the effect that
any union whose members are dis
criminated against ' because of their
membership in that union can proceed
against the , corporation "which has
blacklisted them. Of course what a
court will do Is not determined until
the court has done it, but it is alto
gether probable that within a few days
the unions will strike back, particular
ly the unions of railroad employees,
through the courts and 'secure a spe
cific decision as to whether the black
list Is- more lawful than the- boycott.
As a matter of fact, the employing cor
porations 'themselves are afraid to
meet the Issue, feeling sure that they
would be defeated in It;' It Is for that
reason that they ate, trjrins. to nosh
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Crackers with snap ito T them
Crackers with taste to them
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In dust tight,
moisture proof packages.
Never sold in bulk.'
NATIONAL BISCUIT COMPANY
through new laior legislation and ars
willing to make almost every conces;
slon provided their right to maintain -a
black list be guarded. The Democratic
members of the house have been warn
ed of this purpose, and the pojiosed
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